Sunday, December 23, 2018

When silence is not an option

Morning: Psalms 93, 96; Isaiah 33:17-22; Revelation 22:6-11, 18-20
Evening: Psalms 148, 150; Baruch 4:21-29; Luke 1:57-66

They are logging old growth forest in BC.  My daughter, horrified, is a sort of prophet of a better future, where nature is valued not plundered.  All his life, Zechariah (John Baptist’s father) has trusted the prophets who proclaimed their hope in a better future, but Zechariah is struck dumb when he doubts that his aging wife can give birth to hope.  When John is born, hope kindles again; Zechariah bursts with joy and is silent no longer.  There is yet hope of a better future for earth and its peoples. We proclaim that vision. Silence is not an option.

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